Review: 50 First Dates

50 First Dates

The Synopsis
Drew Barrymore plays a woman named Lucy, who due to a head injury is unable to process short term memory into long term memory. Adam Sandler plays Henry, a vet at an aquatic animals park that falls in love with her and has to figure out how to win her love again every day because she doesn’t remember the previous day.

The Good
This is a silly, funny, light-hearted romantic comedy that will brighten any evening. The cast of characters is entertaining and the story is fun.

The Bad
Typical of Adam Sandler, he tends to over-act some of his scenes and they end up looking like many of the other scenes you see in a typical Adam Sandler movie. If you like Adam Sandler, that isn’t the worst thing, but it does detract from the quality of the movie.

The Ugly
The androgenous character that works with Henry at the animal park. His (her?) comment about not being sure whether he preferred tacos or sausage left a lot to be desired.

The Bottom Line
This movie is good light-hearted movie to watch with a couple for a quiet, uplifting movie. I definitely recommend it. Incidentally, Sean Astin plays Lucy’s brother. His character is hilarious — a body building obsessed wimp who does steroids and talks with a pronounced lisp.

4 People have left comments on this post



» Brian said: { Jan 3, 2005 - 01:01:39 }

Pete – glad your blog is up and running. But you’ve got your priorities messed up. Step 1 should’ve been to import your blog content, and step 2 should’ve been to add a link to braimee.com! Cripes! Where’s your head? 🙂 Also, I like the movie reviews…the 50 First Dates pic is missing though.

» Pete said: { Jan 4, 2005 - 12:01:46 }

Weird about the picture file. It refers to the movie cover from the Internet Movie Database File. I know that was there yesterday….. It should work now!

» Brian said: { Jan 7, 2005 - 10:01:33 }

The pic still ain’t there for me…your source code looks fine. I don’t get it.

» Pete said: { Jan 8, 2005 - 11:01:00 }

I decided to download the image and store it locally instead of pointing to it. That’ll fix it!